peggy noonan in the "wall street journal" said it was crude. we called a number of lawmakers this ank and tonight. not one of them would agree to come on this show and talk to us about why they were canceling town hall meetings. how they felt about these brawls. they wouldn't discuss it. do the democrats need to step up a little bit too on their side? >> exactly. senator mccaskill did a few days ago. i don't know why people feel intimidated by this sort of stuff on either side, whether it's republicans or democrats. this is -- this is very discouraging for people who want to see the democracy work. we've had two presidents in a row now, george w. bush and barack obama come to washington and promise to change, make this our discourse, make it more civil. it just gets worse. we saw last night, erica, in the 200-day report card. there's a tremendous polarization that's now taking place that equals that of what we saw under george w. bush. there's anger growing on both ends of the spectrum at the other end. that makes governing very hard. the real